In Southern Sudan, A Drive to Update The Image of Cows »
Posted By dexlovex2 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsGovernment workers attempt to undo traditional communal thinking about cows and replace it, slowly, with a more profit-driven, market-oriented mentality. The effort is intended to help transform southern Sudan, a region still recovering from 21 years of civil war, into the Argentina of Africa - a cattle-processing, beef-exporting machine.
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AndygM1 year, 6 months ago
I hate to be serious for a minute, but are you guys familiar with the "tragedy of the commons". When it comes to grazing on common land a free market model isn't the way to go. If every individual herdsman just tries to make us much as he can the land will suffer and ultimately everyone loses out. Check it out on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_com...
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CactusAnnie1 year, 6 months ago
Ethnic attitudes often seem to be a major obsticle in economic development. The war on poverty, and even starvation, is complicated by different value systems. The Sudan has always been a big puzzle to me...
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Natureboy1 year, 6 months ago
Greed has cultural limits. We need to abandon greed-based culture and economy, and recognize greed for the vice that it is.
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